Michael Medved Quotes

No one wants to look wholesome at 21!

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

Adolescence is a failed 19th century idea.

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

Fashion is a growing love that probably started when I got into my 20s.

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.